The Creative Mojo Dojo – Mandi Lynn

A Heroines Journey - Where mindfulness meets creativity and has a baby called your genius

This course is for you if any of the below apply...

You struggle to carve out time for your creative soul in your life.

You would like to take a deep course that helps you compassionately understand yourself on a much deeper level.

You wish that you had more balance in your life but don't know how to go about it.

You feel something big is on the horizon for you but you aren't sure if you are ready.

You want to figure out what is blocking your best work from being realized.

You want a creative cheering squad and community to help you realize your creative dreams in 2019.

You want a playful mentor to share 10 years of deep-dive investigation into the Heroine's journey and what blocks and what cracks open your Creative Mojo.

You love doing so many things and find it really hard to focus on just one thing.

You want to make really cool stuff in 2019 and would like support to do it.

Creative Anorexia.

This picture tells the story of what I see in many people. Their gifts their talents...they are that beautiful decadent buffet. But we seem to often only have the courage to offer just the meagerest portion of what we were born to bring.

We have perfect excuses that range from "I have kids" all the way to "my mother never believed in me". All of them are valid...if you let them. But here is the rub. You are the one with the two small pieces of orange on your plate when there is a freaking beautiful cake right in your reach.

Eat the freaking cake already.

This is a course to help you go back for seconds on your creative life and learn to get out of your own way. It will take you on a heroines journey right smack bang into your luscious juicy creative soul.

What is the heroine's journey?

Joseph Campbell outlined in "the Power of Myth" The Hero's Journey which forms the backbone of most stories and movies and basically, it plays out like this:A guy living his normal life hears the call of adventure, refuses, then meets a version of Yoda, goes into the unknown. Has lots of close call adventures, almost dies, probably kills some people, survives it, and returns to normal life changed and with a thing that will help his peeps.Good story. But not this one.This one is The Heroine's Journey, and it doesn't go out into the world. Nope, this one goes inside. It isn't a call for external adventure that is calling...It’s your spirit calling, the unexpressed creative gifts that live, not outside of you, but inside of you. It isn’t something you find outside but something you give birth to through you. The Heroine's Journey is an inner world adventure and it can be as scary as facing dementors.

Here is how this plays out. Girl unprepared for life by a mum with her own issues goes out uninitiated into the world. The toxic soup of cultural oppression and historical family trauma worm their way into her mind, and she becomes her own worst enemy. She thrashes from one form of escape to another wrestling with and trying to control the vampire perfection in a self-judgment swamp of guilt, shame, and fear. Just as she is about to go under and breathe her last breath, her heart cracks open, and she utters the magic words…”I can’t do this alone.”

Suddenly the goddesses hand reaches under the sludge and pulls her to the surface. Her lungs fill with air and as she crawls up on the shore. Her gasps, turn to sobs and her tears of gratitude and self-compassion and loving kindness wash away the toxic sludge. Her breathing slows, and she remains aware. Her mind continues its chatter, she observes it, unhooked, just breathing. Just present. She has been initiated into a spiritual life that holds the key to her greatest creative treasures.

Male, Female or non-binary it doesn't matter

Whether you are male, female or other, it’s going to require a Heroines Journey to get to your best creative work. That means going inside to honour and forgive your hot messes not by going outside to create more and spread them like viruses out into the world and down the family tree.

At any age in your life, you learn to drop the drama, an you can step on to the Heroine's Journey and become initiated to your rich creative life.

Here is the deal. You are going to die.

If you don’t choose a form of initiation on to the Heroines Journey, you will die in a fizzle, having squandered your gifts by focusing all of your energy into trying to numb guilt, shame, and fear.

Please don't do that. Be the wild artivist granny who is peeling donuts with the last drop of juice you have left in your creative tank before you go out in a blaze of artistic glory spreading creative inspiration on everything you touch.

Through all of my own thrashings through life, I have managed to become initiated on the Heroines Journey, and I have taken notes along the way. I have created a roadmap called the Creative Vortex. If you need your initiation out of the head banging numbing dramas and into your creative superpowers, then put your details below.

The Heros Journey

The Heroines Journey

What is The Creative Mojo Dojo?

It is an 8-week dive into yourself unlike anything you have ever experienced.

You bring your favourite form of art no matter what it is.

Drawing/Painting/Illustration

Photography

Scrapbooking

Dancing

Writing

Music

Acting

Film Making

Digital Media

Sculpture

Fill in the blank with your own favourite creative pursuit

You attend a class that teaches you a stage in the initiation. Then you go away and complete a creative challenge. In the next class if you are feeling it you can share what you got out of the class before and show us what you created in response.

The last class is a party and an exhibition of your combined work.

Philosophical Tenants of this Program

Everyone has a natural area of genius that the world needs.

Our culture has a way of shutting down that genius (tall poppy anyone?)

The Creative Vortex - My theory of creativity that I developed on my own Initiation as seen through the filter of an Aruvedic model of wellbeing.

This course is open to all genders looking for a deep connection with their creative fire.

Week 1 The Creative Vortex and the Art of Grounding

Benefits collected for attending this day.

You will begin to understand what aspects of your character are preventing you from bringing your best ideas to life.